Dr. Orly’s Colusi County Quiz #1
Colusi County Trivia

Wagon Wheels, issue Volume 52, Number 2, Fall 2002

  1. Who is the current "mayor' of Fruto? .
     
  2. Old photos of Fruto are said to resemble a 1935 Train advertisement.
     
  3. The streets of Fruto that run east and west were named after .
     
  4. company built the railroad from Willows to Fruto in 1887-1888.
     
  5. The current population of Fruto is:
    4
    7
    10
    13
    16
     
  6. Ancient artifacts sometimes have a thick coating of calcium carbonate or on them.
     
  7. The March 200 archeological dig in Colusa County (Col-247) found specimens and fragments of ceramics dating back to:
    1400 years
    2400 years
    3400 years
    4400 years
     
  8. In the 1920's, hitchhikers often rode on the .
     
  9. What was Lucile (Harlan) March's nickname and how did she acquire it?
        
     
  10. Edmund Wright (1832-1920) fist served in the Civil War as a .
     
  11. The Wright family came to California via the recently completed Central and Union Pacific Railroads in:
    1869
    1874
    1879
    1884
     
  12. Edmund Wright to a book agency from and Company of San Francisco to help satisfy a "naturally roving disposition."
     
  13. Wright's "mistake of his life" was:
    Not buying lots in San Jose with Wisconsin neighbor Uriah Shaw
    Not becoming a merchant in busy and prosperous Newville
    Growing wheat in Colusa County
    Raising sheep in the area around Red Bluff


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